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OpenVG State Tracker For Gallium3D Tomorrow

04-30-2009, 01:30 PM

Phoronix: OpenVG State Tracker For Gallium3D Tomorrow

Zack Rusin, a well known employee of Tungsten Graphics (well, VMware), has announced quite the present for Mesa developers and those looking forward to the widespread adoption of the Gallium3D graphics driver architecture. Tomorrow he will be pushing out perhaps the most interesting state tracker yet, one for OpenVG. The OpenVG state tracker will make it possible for any Gallium3D-based graphics hardware driver to now support this low-level vector graphics API commonly used on hand-held devices with hardware acceleration...

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Can someone tell me what exactly is a "state tracker" ? Does that mean that the people at tungsten have implemented something that will interface libraries and graphic card through OpenVG for 2D vector acceleration ?

All the news from Gallium 3D sound great, but I still don't understand what exactly is the aim of the project (maybe someone has a link toward an handy explaining page...) and I wonder when we will be able to experience some of those great promises !

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Can someone tell me what exactly is a "state tracker" ? Does that mean that the people at tungsten have implemented something that will interface libraries and graphic card through OpenVG for 2D vector acceleration ?

All the news from Gallium 3D sound great, but I still don't understand what exactly is the aim of the project (maybe someone has a link toward an handy explaining page...) and I wonder when we will be able to experience some of those great promises !

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Guys, this is all cool and it looks like the next generation open source linux graphics will probably bit the crap out of the proprietary world.

In the meantime, anyone knows if there is an indication that we could get 3D hardware acceleration in all ATI cards (through the radeon/radeonhd drivers) before this year ends? This will be a huge milestone! (opensource finally delivering a full, real world graphics solution for one of the two big vendors)

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Guys, this is all cool and it looks like the next generation open source linux graphics will probably bit the crap out of the proprietary world.

In the meantime, anyone knows if there is an indication that we could get 3D hardware acceleration in all ATI cards (through the radeon/radeonhd drivers) before this year ends? This will be a huge milestone! (opensource finally delivering a full, real world graphics solution for one of the two big vendors)

as far as i know r300-500 are in the works...
and the work on r600-700 is supposed to start when the basic 3d work is done...
but you sould ask bridgman for more info